Ready for 2021? If you want to make the new year a truly great year, then you’ll need a good dose of wisdom. And what better source for wisdom than the divinely inspired book of Proverbs?
Here are 21 Bible proverbs (in the classic KJV) for your prayerful reading and reflection as you enter the new year:
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels.
-Proverbs 1:5
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
-Proverbs 1:7
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
-Proverbs 3:3-4
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
-Proverbs 3:5-6
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
-Proverbs 3:27
Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
-Proverbs 3:30
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
-Proverbs 4:7
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
-Proverbs 4:14-15
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
-Proverbs 4:23
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
-Proverbs 4:26
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
-Proverbs 5:15
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise, which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
-Proverbs 6:6-8
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
-Proverbs 6:16-19
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
-Proverbs 9:6
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
-Proverbs 9:10
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
-Proverbs 9:17-18
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
-Proverbs 10:2
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
-Proverbs 10:4
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
-Proverbs 10:11
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
-Proverbs 10:14
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
-Proverbs 11:2
You’ll probably notice that the above 21 passages from the book of Proverbs are all pulled from the first half of the book. I could easily have kept going.
In fact, I have a list of over a hundred Bible proverbs to which I refer regularly. The entire book is full of wisdom!
Think about it!
King Solomon asked God for wisdom. God gave him wisdom, and then Solomon (under the leading of the Holy Spirit) put much of that God-given wisdom in writing. And some scribes added to what he wrote – undoubtedly based on some oral traditions of some of his other wisdom sayings.
If you want wisdom (and you should), then you can’t go wrong by reading REGULARLY through the greatest collection of wisdom sayings ever!
And if you want your friends and family to also have a healthy dose of wisdom for 2021, I hope you’ll share this post with them.
God bless you and Happy New Year!
